From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:05:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] common_prefix: be more careful about pathspec bounds
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1006151104300.25388@bonsai2>
In-Reply-To: <201006151016.16492.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Thomas Rast wrote:
> > Normally this won't be a problem, which is probably why nobody has
> > noticed that this was broken since 2006.
> 
> Actually I just noticed it's not from back in 2006 when Linus wrote
> this code, but from the following:
> 
> commit c7f34c180b7117cf60ad12a8b180eed33716e390
> Author: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Date:   Mon Apr 23 10:21:25 2007 +0200
> 
>     dir.c(common_prefix): Fix two bugs

Sorry, my Git time budget for this week was 0 hours, so I used that up 
quite thoroughly. Besides, I do not know anything about the original 
issue, so there is little chance that I even would know where to start.

Ciao,
Dscho